Rethink: Cause and Consequences of September 11

Edited by: Giorgio Baravalle
Hardbound, 584 pages, 10" x 9.2"
2004, de.MO

"September 11th was a departure point that will define our future. Consequently, we have all been forced to rethink - an act that requires introspection and reinterpretation of standard thinking.

RETHINK, A de.MO Project, is a book about history and politics, a book about our lives and about our world, and what we are trying to accomplish in it. RETHINK confronts our diversity, our stupidity and cleverness, our preoccupations and rage, our laughter and desperate tears, our need for justice and love, our thirst for blood and power, our need to nourish and be nourished, our need to breathe, close our eyes and dream.

Investigation of the historical, political and moral aspects of such a tragedy, the events that may have fostered it and its political consequences creates a new viewpoint. de.MO believes that ignoring explanation and questioning can foster new catastrophic events.

The contributors to RETHINK had the freedom to create their own voices and were encouraged to respond in a manner that would acknowledge the historical events and causes that brought us to September 11th. Their varied responses create a document of great interest at a time when politics and values are in tremendous flux.

RETHINK can be used as a weapon or as a treasure, and readers are invited to handle it with care. In RETHINK, we are forced to be open-minded, to review all opinions and issues with the possibility that we might emerge with a new perspective and personal ideology."

List of photo contributors: Christopher Anderson - Alexandra Boulat - Ron Haviv - Gary Knight - Antonin Kratochvil - Christopher Morris - James Nachtwey - John Stanmeyer

List of contributors: Jon Lee Anderson - Kofi Annan - Beth Baron - John Berger - Jonathan Belke - Zbigniew Brzezinski - George W. Bush - Alberto Cairo - Anna Cataldi - Noam Chomsky - Gen. Wesley Clark - John Cooley - His Holiness The Dalai Lama - Robert Dannin - Gareth Evans - Robert Fisk - Vaira Vike-Freiberga - Thomas L. Friedman - Gunter Grass - Christopher Hitchens - Michael Ignatieff - Muzamil Jaleel - Lewis H. Lapham - Matt Mcallester - Richard Medley - Jacques Menasche - Takis Michas - Pankaj Mishra - Joseph S. Nye - Michael Persson - Reza - David Rieff - Arundhati Roy - Suraya Sadeed - Edward Said - Eyad Sarraj - Uri Savir - Jonathan Schell - William Schultz - Susan Sontag - Adm. Stansfield Turner - Sima Wali